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Releases
The Pink Years
The Virgin Years
The Blue Years
The Melrose Years
The TDI Years
The Eastgate Years
All Releases In Chronological
Form
7"/12" and CD Singles
Edgar Froese Solo Works
LPs / CDs
Box sets
Videos / DVDs
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TANGERINE DREAM - SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Tangerine Dream, this seven time Grammy nominated European band, is a singular
phenomenon. As an instrumental band using just high-end modern technology, simultaneously
surrounded by a strong rock «n« roll identity, they will hardly fit
into any given musical pigeonhole. Many have tried to copy what‘s became
known after years as «The Tangerine Dream Sound« - so far absolutely
unsuccessfully.
They always had their little secrets; how all the musical layers were structured
and finally glued together to an undescribable musical experience and how they‘ve
managed to always be ahead of any fashionable movement. Tangerine Dream has never
produced anything calculated to make the masses jump off their chairs and start
screaming Top 40 tunes. Nevertheless, many of the 107 (and counting!) CD Studio,
Live and Soundtrack releases by the band, have their own driving hypnotic pieces
and it is nearly impossible to escape from the race of fast driving bass notes.
Tangerine Dream has continually striven to intertwine music into feeling on a
personal level as opposed to having an audience of mere observers, watching and
listening.
Recognizing the here today, gone tomorrow adage of the entertainment industry,
TD has survived all the stormy and cloudy days within the international showbiz.
It is maybe their great hunger for the unexplainable and unexpected in music,
the adventurous journey upon which they‘ve taken themselves and their audiences.
TD music is something not everybody will jump on immediately - but chances are,
if you really know them, you love them. When Edgar Froese founded Tangerine Dream
back in autumn 1967 - a period when most of the musical world had just gotten
its big wake up call from various places around the globe - he already had had
visions to discover new sounds and musical techniques. After more than 30 years,
through dozens of people joining and leaving the band, Edgar is still provocative
and challenging in his uniquely philosophical musical universe. As a man of few
words but a wry sense of humor, he has shown that music often can reach places
far beyond those found by the descriptions of words.
» read the full TD BIOGRAPHY
For many years TD did lots of hunting scores for Hollywood movie productions,
a very lucrative second career within the remarkable TD artistic diary. At a time
when electronic instruments were widely misunderstood and an independent music
industry was virtually non-existent, Tangerine Dream became recognized as the
pioneers of a new instrumental music and introduced new sounds, sound effects
and production techniques.
Great painters, photographers, actors, architects, writers and dancers have honored
Tangerine Dream for the inspiration for their own work they‘ve drawn from
listening to the music of TD. Tangerine Dream‘s reputation in the world of
music, their vast experience and professionalism, their unforgettable live performances
as well as their record sales give them the freedom to work independently. At
the very least it is the best way to keep and develop TD‘s all time trademark:
Originality which can«t be copied or raped.
Lee van Allsteen (Documented Press)
» read the full TD BIOGRAPHY
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